"I think we have got enough already and we have too many problems of them disappearing for anything between two to 10 days to play American Guatemala and nonsense like that.

"We need to keep our squad together so Ray Clarke has been pulled back from Europe and he will be working closer to home from now on."

City have suffered with the loss of the Moroccans Youssef Chippo and Moustapha Hadji this season, while Ysrael Zuniga and the two Hondurans to a lesser extent, have been required to fly back for internationals from time to time.